July was approaching, and the weather was getting hotter and hotter. Lu Lingjun put on a summer thin shirt, and the small flower hall where he usually spent time was replaced by a ventilated and cool main room.
Except for Du Ruo and Cheng Yunshuo, who had an quarrel and quickly reconciled, there were no major events in the back house.
Qiuling Linglong and the others were looking forward to when Du Ruo would fall out of favor and laugh at her.
It's a pity that Du Ruo is still in his prime.
After an awkward incident, she went back to her parents' home, and Cheng Yunshuo personally took her back.
Lu Lingjun just listened to these trivial matters and smiled.
A rare event that could be considered a big deal was that Cheng Qi went to Dongshou Gate to become a city guard officer.
His sister Cheng Hui was brought to the inner courtyard by Lu Lingjun, who came to educate her.
"Sister-in-law, I've finished writing."
Cheng Hui stood up, picked up a calligraphy practice book she had just written, and showed it to Lu Lingjun.
Lu Lingjun looked at the page she wrote seriously and said, "Well, the writing is good."
Cheng Huike is much better behaved than Du Ruo. She does whatever Lu Lingjun tells her to do and learns whatever Lu Lingjun tells her to do.
Cheng Huiyuan rolled her eyes and said, "Sister-in-law, can I play for a while?"
"Let's go."
With Lu Lingjun's permission, Cheng Hui immediately went to Xia Mei with a smile on her face, and the two went to play games under the rose shelf in the yard.
Shuanghong came in with a large plate of chilled watermelon.
Lu Lingjun greeted them both, "Don't just play around. Go eat the watermelon."
Cheng Hui ran over, grabbed two pieces of watermelon, and ate them with Xia Mei. The bright red watermelon juice immediately covered their faces.
When Shuanghong saw this, she smiled and said, "Young madam, these two don't look like girls!"
"This is how children should be." Lu Lingjun shook his fan and said with a smile.
At this time, the grandma in the mansion came in with a happy face to report.
"Young lady, you're back! You're back!"
"Who's back?"
"Our caravan, Captain Qian and Captain Qin are both back!"
Upon hearing Captain Qian's return, the frosty red eyes standing next to Lu Lingyun immediately lit up.
After the beginning of this year, because of Lu Lingjun's suggestion, both caravans from the Hou Mansion took the Jiangnan route.
During this period, goods have been sent back several times, but the two rivals in charge have not returned to the house. Now in the middle of the year, the two team leaders have come to the house to report on their work.
"Please come in quickly!" Lu Lingyun said.
Not long after, Captain Qian and Captain Qin both entered Lu Lingyun's room.
When the two of them saw Lu Lingjun, they knelt down and kowtowed.
"Greetings, Madam!"
"Greetings, Madam!"
"You two have worked hard, get up." Lu Lingjun sat upright in his seat, smiling at the two team leaders who came back to report on their duties.
"Young madam, thanks to your arrangement, we went to the south of the Yangtze River this time." Captain Qian stood up and praised Lu Lingjun, "You don't even know how many people who walked with me on the border trade route." The caravan hasn’t come back yet!”
"And the silk materials you asked me to go to Jiangnan to look for are really very fashionable! We just placed orders with various silk workshops, and the prices started to increase immediately. It's hard to find a piece! Those Jiangnan silk merchants saw that we had come early When the goods arrived, everyone’s eyes were opened, and they all said that we were just lucky.”
Captain Qian praised Lu Lingjun fiercely, saying that this business trip was the luckiest trip he had ever taken.
When Lu Lingjun asked him to change the trade route a few years ago, he still didn't believe in Lu Lingjun. He just thought that a lady in a boudoir would not know anything about the trade route.
He was accustomed to taking the western trade route. That trade route was steep but profitable, and it was a huge source of revenue for the Hou Mansion.
If he and Captain Qin go on the Jiangnan trade route, they will definitely earn less and waste time.
Unexpectedly, not long after he set out at the beginning of the new year, he heard the news that his friends who were traveling on the border trade routes were trapped and arrested.
As time went by, not only were those people not rescued, but many of them got into trouble and were killed at the border.
When he thought of this, Team Leader Qian was filled with fear and secret joy. Fortunately, a young lady came to their house this year and saved them from a catastrophe. This disaster might have been a loss of money if it was the Hou's turn, but it was his turn. Your own life is in danger!
Not to mention that after he followed Captain Qin to Jiangnan, he followed the young lady's instructions to order the materials she wanted. Not long after their order was placed, the price of the materials began to skyrocket, and later it became even harder to find!
When the caravan that went with them to Jiangnan realized that all the materials had been bought by their family, the way those people looked at them at that time, Team Leader Qian would never forget it in his life.
Jianshou is so cool!
Envy and jealous people praised them for their good luck, and some even started conspiracy theories, saying that they started the business themselves, and that it would not last long, and that the price would fall later, causing them to lose all their money.
Unexpectedly, this material became more and more popular and popular all the way to the capital.
Ninety percent of this material in the entire capital was brought by their Ningyang Marquis Mansion caravan.
On this trip, both of their caravans made a lot of money, but they only regretted that they didn't have enough manpower!
"Young Madam is really far-sighted! She has a sharp eye! She is far-sighted!" Qian Dui praised her vigorously for the first time, only hating that he did not praise well enough.
Lu Lingjun's foresight cannot be overstated.
Captain Qin on the side couldn't help but look up at Lu Lingyun.
Lu Lingjun smiled and waved his hands, "Hey, you all have worked hard. Come to your seats and have a rest."
The nuns brought the stools up early, Captain Qin and Captain Qian took their seats, and the maids served tea to them.
The person who placed the cup of tea on Captain Qian’s head was Shuang Hong, “Captain Qian has tea.”
Captain Qian glanced at her and recognized her immediately and said, "It's you!"
Shuanghong immediately lowered his head, answered one syllable, and quickly retreated.
Captain Qin next to him presented the account book and asked people to bring everything up.
When the two team leaders came to report their work, in addition to handing in their ledgers and bringing back more than a dozen boxes of money, they also brought back a large amount of stuff.
These are for the owner's family.
The top-notch rare items collected in each trip will not be sold, but will be delivered to the owner's house.
This year, in addition to hundreds of the most fashionable materials, they also brought a box of Jiangnan-style hairpins, five boxes of porcelain bottles, dishes, and other large ornaments, three pairs of large screens with paintings of ladies hand-painted by masters, and a box of novel folding fans from Jiangnan. Knives, sachets, snuff bottles, clocks, mirrors and other small items.
Lu Lingjun is now the head mistress of the Hou Mansion. She looked at the silver and objects presented and said with a smile, "You have worked really hard."
She first counted the silver according to the account books. This trip brought a total of more than 78,300 taels of silver, nearly double the usual profit, and all the money was put into the treasury.
As for the rare and good items she brought, she glanced at them and started planning.
